Blockchains

Proposal 1061 is above quorum with near-unanimous support. Validators would need Gaia v29.1.0 at block 33,935,300 if it passes.

Developers dropped quick slots but left FOCIL and a new consensus direction unresolved. Christine D. Kim described development as 'on pause.'

Slower blocks triggered the year's third-largest difficulty cut, lifting expected revenue per unit of computing power as Bitcoin's price slide squeezed miners.

Elysium, the layer 2 Kinetiq built for Hyperliquid, went live on mainnet on November 9, 2026. Blocks come about seven times a second, there is no public mempool, and some HyperEVM features have not arrived yet. Here is what to check in an RPC provider.

The proposed Nov. 24 upgrade adds asset-transfer and trading infrastructure, while CypherOS privacy remains on the roadmap. Voting is still below quorum.

Where transactions run is only part of the difference. Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Linea and Polygon PoS show how checks, settlement and withdrawal waits diverge.

Polling starts Nov. 16 on a draft that would end ZCG's 8% funding stream and build a locked development and legal-defense reserve.

The lab targets quantum- and AI-resistant Ethereum in 2027, withdrawing Quick Slots from its Hegotá push and asking developers to rethink the upgrade.

A mainnet vault withdrawal used a Lamport one-time signature. The test does not upgrade ordinary sBTC wallets or the Bitcoin backing the token.

The fork restores Dashjr's editor listing and BIP-110's 'Complete' status, while bitcoin/bips remains active with five editors.